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Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.
Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
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